Anyway... Why *would* women be exempt from a future draft? It needs a reason, the default should be equal status.
Replacement of people, it's not enough to win you must also have a future, otherwise you just end up like the victorious states in Europe that even in victory were losers
I dunno it's a bit like questioning why doctors are exempt from the draft, you only instigate a draft in total war and in total war you mobilize your resources smart or you solve your overpopulation issue like Russia when everyone eats more bullets than cabbage
Not really sure why the USA has a draft to be honest, no country could touch the North American continent
Wait, noncitizens can serve in the military? Wtf...
If we're doing that, it really ought to grant citizenship, Roman-style! Not really joking.
French Foreign Legion very famously gives citizenship for service, Gurkhas a decade ago got citizenship rights I'd say it's a very successful model
America freedom legion soon
An easy and clever way to tackle the issue is let the physical standard for both genders be the same. You'll end up with a few % of actually reliable women fighters while keeping enough to do the labour at home without being sexist.
Well if we're talking standard military during peacetime (well, "peacetime") then this should be the standard and you only ever lower the standard when you need to, you want to have as high standards to begin with that's why it's
standards.But some people are arguing that women shouldn't have to be able to carry male soldiers (200+ pounds) because female soldiers are lighter, and I don't agree with that.
Doesn't matter if you disagree, because more muscle = more strength, lowered standards speak for themselves
Equal standards is cool beans, I don't like people dying for no reason, I like people dying because someone else wanted to be signal even less lol
At any rate I wouldn't support lowered standards or just equal high standards either, though the latter is much preferable outside of the most desperate situations such as when the Gauls were overrun by fucking Romans or the Israelis got dicked by all their very angry neighbours. Nah see, way I see it, if you can't enlist because you fail to meet the physical standards, what if you've got some skills to offset that? Nothing wrong about a 40 year old Leo joining the army I don't see why a younger woman with similar skillsets and more testosterone than an Olympics tennis player wouldn't do as well either
Prolly biggest niche here is that of technical roles; got an engineering degree, are a doc or chaplain? Can't do pull ups? Get on board anyways